Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent.

I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and

insights from parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this

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Welcome. Why do we chase this? It's pretty widely agreed that too much of anything spoils a person.

We read the cautionary tales of the rich families whose inheritance wrecks generations of offspring. We hear the sad stories of brothers and

sisters torn apart trying to distribute their parents' estates. Perhaps we look back on a childhood

of our own, one where we wanted for little in the material sense, but could have used a mom or a dad

who was around more, who was tired less, who seemed to be so important to other people that

they missed how important they were to us. And yet here we are working, working, working to make

more and more and more money, trying to strike it rich, saving, investing, scheming for that big

payday. Do we think it's going to be different for us? Are we not thinking

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